Do you want students to understand the concepts of justice, the historical influences found in America during the 1930’s in the deep South, along with analysis of the literary elements found in the 1977 Newbery novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry? The solution is simple. Conduct a mock trial of one of its characters.
This trial is based on the novel, ‘Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,’ by Mildred D. Taylor. At the end of this novel, a 13-year-old black boy, T.J. Avery, makes a poor deci